Sowing Seeds of Empowerment, Wisdom, Knowledge and Liberation

New Yorker Stevie Bates, 19, who had been traveling cross country with Occupy Wall Street friends to an Occupy event, stopped at a layover in Pittsburgh on April 27th on the way home to New York.

She hasn’t been seen since.

Bates was last observed boarding the bus in Pittsburgh bound for arrival in NY on April 28. Her mother Vivian last spoke to her on the phone when she was at the Greyhound station in Pittsburgh at 7:52 pm. She told her mother that when she got back she intended to stay with friends in Brooklyn but would be home later in the day. She never arrived.

Bates, a 19-year-old former cheerleader at the Bronx High School of Science, has shoulder-length blond dreadlocks, weighs 120 pounds and is 5’6″ tall. She has a nose piercing and a belly piercing.